What is a tire bead and how do you avoid damaging it?

The tire bead is an essential component of any tire, and any damage to it could be a one-way ticket to needing new tires.
The Drive

The ‘Bead Bazooka’ Is Your Brute-Force Solution to Stubborn Tire Beads

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Fleet Owner

New bead seating tool for tubeless tires

Ken-Tool has released the Mega AirBlast, a bead seating tool designed to properly seat the bead of tubeless tires to the rim. The Mega AirBlast has an operating maximum pressure of 165 psi (11 bar) ...
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Tire Balancing Beads Seem Like Magic, But There's A Reason They Aren't Used More Often

If you've been driving that good-looking pickup truck and suddenly your steering wheel shimmies like it's trying to escape your hands at 70 mph, then you already know what tire imbalance feels like.
Outside

How to Install Tubeless Tires

You’re railing that descent, nailing every line and feeling like a world champ, when suddenly you smash a wheel into a big square-edge rock. Quite literally, you can feel the air go out of the ride.